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Alicja Khatchikian (Vienna): Performance and Gender in Almodovar's Bodies. From Capitalism Nature Socialism, an editorial by David Correia: “Fk Jared Diamond”. From The Awl, why is America turning to shit? Yasmin Nair wants to know. Although perhaps best known for co-founding the Encylopedie, Philipp Blom argues for the importance of Diderot’s philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by his better remembered contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau. Why aren't there more female libertarians? Nora Caplan-Bricker investigates. The world's worst graffiti, in pictures: A satirical new art book, Wanksy: Interpreting a Graffiti Virtuoso, takes a massive swipe at everyday graffers, and by extension our entire society for humouring artists like Banksy. Josh Marshall on a fascinating conglomeration of hucksterism, right-wing paranoia, secular eschatology all from one pasty dude selling something called the "Patriot Survival Plan" — it's all in a video, which is epically crazy and yet hard to stop watching. Hate for a new generation: Young white supremacists gather in D.C. to talk Ayn Rand, race and IQ, economic collapse. Corey Robin on when Richard Nixon met Karl Polanyi. From NYRB, Alan Rusbridger on the Snowden leaks and the public. Will Silicon Valley finally get mad about the NSA’s MUSCULAR program?

A new issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology is out. Margaret E. Peters (Yale): Open Trade, Closed Borders: Immigration Policy in the Era of Globalization. From New Formations, a conversation with AAAAARG, Chto Delat?, I Cite, Mute, and Neural (Jodi Dean, Sean Dockray, Alessandro Ludovico, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Nicholas Thoburn, and Dmitry Vilensky), practitioners of independent political media, focusing on the diverse materialities of independent publishing associated with the new media environment; and #MySubjectivation explores some of the implications changes in the media landscape, including those associated with the development of corporate social media and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, have for the ways in which theorists and philosophers create, perform and circulate research and knowledge. From Jacobin, Ramon Glazov goes behind the bizarre ideology that fuels Adbusters. Kevin Drum on the real-world consequences of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Rightbloggers say Obamacare website can't ever be fixed, might's well give up right now. Jonathan Cohn on Obamacare's worst-case scenarios. “If you like your plan, you can keep it” — well, not exactly. Obamacare is radically changing the individual insurance market — and that's a very good thing (and more). When should a young writer write for free? Daniel D’Addario wonders.